PubMed

After you’ve created a search string you’d like to save, click the ‘Advanced’ button on the main search page under the search box, then click the three dogs in front of the search you want to save. Choose 'Add Query."  In the future, you can access this search string by clicking your login name (upper right area) then 'Dashboard.'

On the next page you can:

• Name your search
• Specify if you want emailed updates, and if so, how often
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You can "Create an Alert' to have PubMed email you when new citations are added to PubMed that match your search criteria.  To do this, as shown above, click 'Create alert' and then on the next page, specify how often you would like to be notified of these new results.

Collections is a feature that allows you to save a set of citations for future use.  You can create a collection by either saving an entire set of search results, or specific citations.

 To save an entire set of search results, simply click "Send to" then "Collections"

To save specific citations, first save those citations into a Clipboard.  To save items to the Clipboard, check off the box in front of the citations you with to save, then click "Send to" then "Clipboard."

To access your Collection, click on your profile link in the upper right area of your screen, then click "Dashboard."

You can have PubMed save the entire set of results returned by a search string.  Results will be saved in a Collection. To do so, on the page where you see you results, click 'Send to' and then 'Collections.'  You will be asked to name your collection.  In the future, you can access these results by clicking your login name (upper right area) then 'Dashboard.'

There are many ways to personalize the way your PubMed results are displayed.  To change yours, click on your login name (upper right area) then 'Dashboard.'  Next click 'NCBI Site Preferences.'

One popular way to change your display is to add a highlighted color to your keywords, wherever they show up in the title or abstract.  To do this, on the 'NCBI Site Preferences' page, click 'Highlighting' and change the color to whatever color you choose.

Because PubMed is freely accessible and does not directly provide e-journal subscriptions, it is not necessary (or possible) to use your Rush account to sign in with OpenAthens. As a result, PubMed will usually only recognize you as a Rush patron and provide Rush’s Get It at Rush button if you reach the PubMed site by following a link on the library's site. If you reach PubMed through a search engine, you will not be shown Rush's links. 

However, if you are signed in to your My NCBI account, it's possible to designate up to five institutional affiliations for which PubMed will provide full-text access links. PubMed refers to these as "Outside Tools." Selecting Rush's Outside Tool will add the Get It button to each article's abstract page, which will allow you to use your Rush account to sign in and retrieve the full text of articles covered by the library's e-journal subscriptions. 

To activate an Outside Tool, use the link below to open your My NCBI account settings. FInd "Rush University Medical Center Library" in the list of institutions and check the box next to it. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/pubmed/outsidetool/

More detailed information and instructions are available in NLM's My NCBI documentation.